{"id":2479,"date":"2016-10-03T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:41:15","slug":"what-to-do-when-your-album-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"What to do when your album stalls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2480\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flowchart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flowchart-350x240.jpg\" alt=\"Flowchart for recording Girls and Film.\" width=\"350\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flowchart-350x240.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flowchart-768x526.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flowchart-1024x702.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowchart showing the (convoluted) process of making the album Girls And Film.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That difficult first album &#8211; it all gets off to a great start, ideas flow and you&#8217;re feeling musically inspired. But then life gets in the way, your open reel 8 track breaks down, you&#8217;re not happy with your mechanical reverb options so you have to build a plate device, the album concept is film photography so you need 24 tracks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, the writing has been going very well but the recording process is just quite a big undertaking. So, at this point I&#8217;ll be putting out an EP of some of the completed songs, along with an extra track that won&#8217;t be on the album and isn&#8217;t even about photography. Yes it&#8217;s been nice to write a song about something else. It&#8217;s not even about space, despite the title, Cold Star, which suggests it might be.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That difficult first album &#8211; it all gets off to a great start, ideas flow and you&#8217;re feeling musically inspired. But then life gets in the way, your open reel 8 track breaks down, you&#8217;re not happy with your mechanical reverb options so you have to build a plate device, the album concept is film [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,53,14,63],"tags":[319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}